Community Assistance

The Commission's Community Assistance program is designed to
strengthen local planning activities by providing professional
planning services on a contractual basis, while ensuring such plans
are prepared in a consistent and coordinated manner. The Community
Assistance program's main focus is on the following:

Where local planning agencies
and technical staff exist at the community level, regional planning
programs are designed to supplement and complement the local
planning programs. For communities where local planning agencies do
not exist, the Commission's Community Assistance program is
designed to encourage the development of local planning
activities.